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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-06-19 13:04:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-06-19 13:04:46 +0200 |
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added doc on how to generate certficates
with gnutls for both the CA and individual machines
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diff --git a/doc/tls_cert_machine.html b/doc/tls_cert_machine.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f7868caa --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tls_cert_machine.html @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html><head><title>TLS-protected syslog: generating the machine certificate</title> +</head> +<body> + +<h1>Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS (SSL)</h1> +<p><small><i>Written by <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/people/rainer-gerhards.php">Rainer +Gerhards</a> (2008-06-18)</i></small></p> + +<ul> +<li><a href="rsyslog_secure_tls.html">Overview</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_scenario.html">Sample Scenario</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_ca.html">Setting up the CA</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_machine.html">Generating Machine Certificates</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_server.html">Setting up the Central Server</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_client.html">Setting up syslog Clients</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_udp_relay.html">Setting up the UDP syslog relay</a> +<li><a href="tls_cert_summary.html">Wrapping it all up</a> +</ul> + +<h3>generating the machine certificate</h3> +<p>In this step, we generate certificates for each of the machines. Please note +that both clients and servers need certificates. The certificate identifies each +machine to the remote peer. The DNSName specified inside the certificate can +<span style="float: left"> +<script type="text/javascript"><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-3204610807458280"; +/* rsyslog doc inline */ +google_ad_slot = "5958614527"; +google_ad_width = 125; +google_ad_height = 125; +//--> +</script> +<script type="text/javascript" +src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> +</script> +</span> +be specified inside the $<object>PermittedPeer config statements. +<p>For now, we assume that that a single person (or group) is responsible for the whole +rsyslog system and thus it is OK if that single person is in posession of all +machine's private keys. This simplification permits us to use a somewhat less +complicated way of generating the machine certificates. So, we generate both the private +and public key on the CA (which is NOT a server!) and then copy them over to the +respective machines. +<p>If the roles of machine and CA administrators are split, the private key must +be generated by the machine administrator. This is done via a certificate request. +This request is then sent to the CA admin, which in turn generates the certificate +(containing the public key). The CA admin then sends back the certificate to the +machine admin, who installs it. That way, the CA admin never get's hold of the +machine's private key. Instructions for this mode will be given in a later revision +of this document. +<p><b>In any case, it is vital that the machine's private key is protected. Anybody +able to obtain that private key can imporsonate as the machine to which it belongs, thus +breaching your security.</b> +<h3>Sample Screen Session</h3> +<code><pre> +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>certtool --generate-privkey --outfile key.pem</b> +Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key... +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>certtool --generate-request --load-privkey key.pem --outfile request.pem</b> +Generating a PKCS #10 certificate request... +Country name (2 chars): US +Organization name: SomeOrg +Organizational unit name: SomeOU +Locality name: Somewhere +State or province name: CA +Common name: machine.example.net +UID: +Enter a challenge password: +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>certtool --generate-certificate --load-request request.pem --outfile cert.pem --load-ca-certificate ca.pem --load-ca-privkey ca-key.pem</b> +Generating a signed certificate... +Enter the certificate's serial number (decimal): + + +Activation/Expiration time. +The certificate will expire in (days): 1000 + + +Extensions. +Does the certificate belong to an authority? (Y/N): n +Is this a TLS web client certificate? (Y/N): y +Is this also a TLS web server certificate? (Y/N): y +Enter the dnsName of the subject of the certificate: machine.example.net +Will the certificate be used for signing (DHE and RSA-EXPORT ciphersuites)? (Y/N): +Will the certificate be used for encryption (RSA ciphersuites)? (Y/N): +X.509 Certificate Information: + Version: 3 + Serial Number (hex): 485a3819 + Validity: + Not Before: Thu Jun 19 10:42:54 UTC 2008 + Not After: Wed Mar 16 10:42:57 UTC 2011 + Subject: C=US,O=SomeOrg,OU=SomeOU,L=Somewhere,ST=CA,CN=machine.example.net + Subject Public Key Algorithm: RSA + Modulus (bits 1024): + b2:4e:5b:a9:48:1e:ff:2e:73:a1:33:ee:d8:a2:af:ae + 2f:23:76:91:b8:39:94:00:23:f2:6f:25:ad:c9:6a:ab + 2d:e6:f3:62:d8:3e:6e:8a:d6:1e:3f:72:e5:d8:b9:e0 + d0:79:c2:94:21:65:0b:10:53:66:b0:36:a6:a7:cd:46 + 1e:2c:6a:9b:79:c6:ee:c6:e2:ed:b0:a9:59:e2:49:da + c7:e3:f0:1c:e0:53:98:87:0d:d5:28:db:a4:82:36:ed + 3a:1e:d1:5c:07:13:95:5d:b3:28:05:17:2a:2b:b6:8e + 8e:78:d2:cf:ac:87:13:15:fc:17:43:6b:15:c3:7d:b9 + Exponent: + 01:00:01 + Extensions: + Basic Constraints (critical): + Certificate Authority (CA): FALSE + Key Purpose (not critical): + TLS WWW Client. + TLS WWW Server. + Subject Alternative Name (not critical): + DNSname: machine.example.net + Subject Key Identifier (not critical): + 0ce1c3dbd19d31fa035b07afe2e0ef22d90b28ac + Authority Key Identifier (not critical): + fbfe968d10a73ae5b70d7b434886c8f872997b89 +Other Information: + Public Key Id: + 0ce1c3dbd19d31fa035b07afe2e0ef22d90b28ac + +Is the above information ok? (Y/N): y + + +Signing certificate... +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>rm -f request.pem</b> +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>ls -l</b> +total 16 +-r-------- 1 root root 887 2008-06-19 12:33 ca-key.pem +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1029 2008-06-19 12:36 ca.pem +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1074 2008-06-19 12:43 cert.pem +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 887 2008-06-19 12:40 key.pem +[root@rgf9dev sample]# # it may be a good idea to rename the files to indicate where they belong to +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>mv cert.pem machine-cert.pem</b> +[root@rgf9dev sample]# <b>mv key.pem machine-key.pem</b> +[root@rgf9dev sample]# +</pre></code> +<h3>Distributing Files</h3> +<p>Provide the machine with: +<ul> +<li>a copy of ca.pem +<li>cert.pem +<li>key.pem +</ul> +<p>This is how the relevant part of rsyslog.conf looks on the target machine: +<p> +<code><pre> +$DefaultNetstreamDriverCAFile /home/rger/proj/rsyslog/sample/ca.pem +$DefaultNetstreamDriverCertFile /home/rger/proj/rsyslog/sample/machine-cert.pem +$DefaultNetstreamDriverKeyFile /home/rger/proj/rsyslog/sample/machine-key.pem +</pre></code> +<p><b><font color="red">Never</font> provide anyone with ca-key.pem!</b> Also, make sure +nobody but the machine in question gets hold of key.pem. +<h2>Copyright</h2> +<p>Copyright (c) 2008 <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/people/rainer-gerhards.php">Rainer +Gerhards</a> and +<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/">Adiscon</a>.</p> +<p> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version +1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; +with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license can be viewed at +<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</a>.</p> +</body></html> |